Allergies: Medical Equipment

(asked on 4th July 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many preventable deaths occurred in each of the three most recent years for which figures are available, as a result of (1) failure to administer an adrenaline auto-injector, and (2) failure of an adrenaline auto-injector.


Answered by
Lord Markham Portrait
Lord Markham
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 11th July 2023

Data on the number of preventable deaths which have occurred as a result of failure to administer an adrenaline auto-injector and failure of an adrenaline auto-injector are not collected by Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), as the Human Medicines regulations relate to pharmacovigilance of adverse drug reactions and medication errors resulting in adverse drug reactions. Anyone experiencing side effects with medicines is encouraged to report these to MHRA via Yellow Card.

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